Israeli hostages are home but they and their families are not healed

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The hostages taken by Hamas, dead and alive, are back home. But that’s not the end of the ordeal for them and their families. It’s expected they will need years of counseling to get over the trauma they experienced, both as hostages and relatives of hostages. Stephanie Freid reports from Tel Aviv.

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